Parking Enforcement Notice - Paid

Driver8

ArnoldPringle wrote: »

Another motorist utterly devoid of reason.

Parking is a commodity, and those who own car parks are well within their rights to impose limits, and enforce them through third parties.

I for one hope that your selfish activities do not go unnoticed by the landowner.

I suggest, by your writing, your Perky popping up again. Take advice from your daughter if it is you.

She, like a lot of others, hates you.

Driver8

nobby24 wrote: »

I out of the blue today received a Parking Enforcement Notice and a £90 charge (£45 if paid within 7 days).

After the initial shock because it referred to a date three weeks previously I remembered where it had occurred. I had parked on the Coop Supermarket car park at Whitby. I knew there was a time limit attached to using this car park and remembered I had exceeded this. I could have parked on the pay and display car park across the road but wanted to park charge free as I had done on other occasions.

So I realised I had infringed the rules of parking there for free and so I have stumped up the £45, now the matter is closed, no red demands or threats of bailiffs etc. I was wrong and have paid.

Fair dos as far as I'm concerned.

You are an uneducated misinformed total idiot who will pay any invoice what comes through your letter box without doing any research.

You deserve to get fleeced.

Can you give me your address please so i can fleece you till you have nothing left and when you haven't i will get a CCJ against you when you can't pay anything more after 28 days !

There's one born every minute, literally.

AltheHibby

Driver8,

It's reported as spam. You'd think that on Friday night that Perky would be trawling the dating sites. Perhaps pigbusters.net? (BTW, that's a real site - Google "dating sites pig")

Kite2010

nobby24 wrote: »

I out of the blue today received a Parking Enforcement Notice and a £90 charge (£45 if paid within 7 days).

After the initial shock because it referred to a date three weeks previously I remembered where it had occurred. I had parked on the Coop Supermarket car park at Whitby. I knew there was a time limit attached to using this car park and remembered I had exceeded this. I could have parked on the pay and display car park across the road but wanted to park charge free as I had done on other occasions.

So I realised I had infringed the rules of parking there for free and so I have stumped up the £45, now the matter is closed, no red demands or threats of bailiffs etc. I was wrong and have paid.

Fair dos as far as I'm concerned.

Hi Nobby

Thank you for your payment, however it arrived too late to qualify for the discount payment of £45, £35 is still outstanding.

Yours truly

PPC

Tigerbush

Kitey's on the pitch. He shoots, he scores.

taffy056 wrote: »

...Nobby is disillusioned on this.

Nobby's had enough now I think.

art_for_arts_sake

Tobster86 wrote: »

Can I just say to everyone seeking some kind of moral high ground on where people should & shouldn't park;

If that was aimed at me I'm not claiming any moral high ground. I feel that I should point out that parking isn't just a problem for large supermarkets but also small businesses who have limited means of controlling it. A graphic supplies company I visit is regularly plagued by inconsiderate people parking on their tiny car park because there is no on-street parking nearby, making it difficult to access their own property.

wrote:

If it wasn't for the fact that councils have lead a campaign of purposefully removing completely legitimate parking spaces so they (and PPC lobbyists) can overcharge for parking and make further money through fines (enforceable or otherwise); then the supermarkets wouldn't now be facing the problem of people abusing their parking facilities.

True, when the council is using paid on-street parking or permit-based parking as a cash cow, but if you'd ever experienced the misery of driving round for 30 minutes waiting for someone to move just so you can park your car yards from your house I don't think you'd feel the same.

Thanks to councils and supermarkets, every high street in the country is now exactly the same depressing mess of contract phone shops, banks and chavs.

I couldn't agree more. Councils claim their hands are tied by the threat of expensive planning appeals, so kowtow to developers' demands.

We pay enough council, road & fuel tax and have had enough.

No such thing as road tax. It's VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) but, yes, it's another tax. It doesn't entitle you to anything though, it's just a means of extracting more cash by the goverment.

Next time I need to visit town for an extended period of time it will be courtesy of Parking Eye who will have another batch of their letters used to line my cats litter tray.

So you're part of the problem. I loathe and despise Parking Eye and PPCs as much as anyone, but as I pointed out above while people misuse parking there will always be a need for regulation.

It isn't about being holier than thou, just recognising you're part of the problem. It's a bit like moaning about being stuck in traffic; you are the traffic. Fact is, there are already too many cars clogging up the roads. None of us has any more right to use the roads than anyone else, we should all consider the benefits of not automatically jumping into a car, which should be apparent to anyone claiming to be a MSE. I hope that doesn't come over as being preachy and holier-than-thou, or anti-car. I realise not everyone is fit enough to abandon their car, but try it for once. You might be pleasantly surprised.

bargepole

art_for_arts_sake wrote: »

... It isn't about being holier than thou, just recognising you're part of the problem. It's a bit like moaning about being stuck in traffic; you are the traffic. Fact is, there are already too many cars clogging up the roads. None of us has any more right to use the roads than anyone else, we should all consider the benefits of not automatically jumping into a car, which should be apparent to anyone claiming to be a MSE. I hope that doesn't come over as being preachy and holier-than-thou, or anti-car. I realise not everyone is fit enough to abandon their car, but try it for once. You might be pleasantly surprised.

At the risk of wandering completely off-topic, the problem with too many cars for the road network arises because the whole system of driving tuition and driving tests makes it far too easy for people to get a licence.

If I were in charge of the DSA, I'd make the following mandatory as part of the driving test:
- You have to change your front nearside wheel on the hard shoulder of a dual carriageway
- You have to drive from, eg Hereford to Huntingdon, without the aid of a sat-nav
- You have to complete at least 50 miles of motorway driving
- You have to complete at least 2 hours of night driving
- You have to complete an autotest type of obstacle course on private land, including reverse spins and handbrake turns

Problem solved!

AltheHibby

Bargepole,

That would certainly solve the problem up my way; the nearest motorway to Inverness, the major town, is 111 miles! If you live in, say, Wick, its over 210.

Not having a dig at you, but Scotland isn't awash with motorways, or even duals in the Highlands.

trisontana

Even Norfolk and Suffolk don't have any motorways.

AltheHibby

Trisontana,

I thought the M11 made it in by inches. Don't suppose there's much call for motorways when you all drive trackers! :-)